The following reply was made to PR bin/41302; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/41302: cron dies at startup
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:25:37 +0200
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:04:27AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> pgrp is 2, and the cron parent process is still in this group.
I looked a bit further and it seems that the cron signal handler runs,
returns, and then fork returns to the daemonize() call with child pid = -1
and errno = 0.
Looks like a sparc64 specific bug...
Martin